NAD has announced the C 589, a dedicated CD player that joins its Classic Series. The transport and loader mechanism was reportedly engineered for quiet and stable disc tracking across a wide range of ...

My favourite Bluetooth headphone of 2025, the Px8 S2, edged out the Sennheiser HDB 630 on excitement and dynamics. Now Bowers ...

The SA45 (€4999/US$4999) is Arcam’s flagship streaming integrated amplifier, built around the company’s fifth-generation Class G amplification topology and rated at 180wpc into 8 ohms (and 300wpc into ...

It's not just about bass whomp.

How many subwoofers are Darko.Audio’s YouTube viewers actually running? The answer, it turns out, is mostly none or one. I ...

Shanling has announced the SM1.3R, an R2R-powered sibling to the SM1.3 streaming DAC that landed in late 2024. The chassis, ...

A €5000 loudspeaker cable that a listener swears sounds more open and airy than a €50 one, yet no measurement can identify ...

The most persistent objection to acoustic treatment isn’t cost. It’s aesthetics. Very few hi-fi enthusiasts want their ...

The M6xi is aimed squarely at listeners with an established source chain, whether that is vinyl, CD or a dedicated external ...

Named after the primaeval giant of Norse mythology, the Ymir arrives as a complete clean-sheet design, sharing nothing with the Icon 12 or Verdande that preceded it.

So there you have it: five reasons to add a subwoofer to your hi-fi system. Not explosions. Not car-audio showboating.